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On the heels of his acclaimed memoir, Never Have Your DogStuffed, beloved actor and bestselling author Alan Alda has writtenThings I Overheard While Talking to Myself, an insightful and funnylook at some of the impossible questions he’s asked himself overthe years: What do I value? What, exactly, is the good life? (Andwhat does that even mean?)
Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having beensaved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop inChile–Alda finds himself not only glad to be alive but searchingfor a way to squeeze the most juice out of his new life. Lookingfor a sense of meaning that would make this extra time count, helistens in on things he’s heard himself saying in private and inpublic at critical points in his life–from the turbulence of thesixties, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children,to the ache of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on thetransitions in his life and in all our lives, he notices that“doorways are where the truth is told,” and wonders if there’s onething–art, activism, family, money, fame–that could lead to a “lifeof meaning.”
Picking up where his bestselling memoir left off–having beensaved by emergency surgery after nearly dying on a mountaintop inChile–Alda finds himself not only glad to be alive but searchingfor a way to squeeze the most juice out of his new life. Lookingfor a sense of meaning that would make this extra time count, helistens in on things he’s heard himself saying in private and inpublic at critical points in his life–from the turbulence of thesixties, to his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children,to the ache of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on thetransitions in his life and in all our lives, he notices that“doorways are where the truth is told,” and wonders if there’s onething–art, activism, family, money, fame–that could lead to a “lifeof meaning.”